OUR IMMUTABLE GOD

For I, Yahweh, do not change; therefore you,

O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.  Malachi 3:6 

God is immutable, He never changes.  The God that said, “Let there be light” has never changed.  The God that created Adam and Eve and later expelled them from the Garden of Eden has never changed.  The God that spared Noah through the world-wide flood has never changed. The God that called Abram out of Ur making him many great promises has never changed.  The God who took upon Himself humanity dwelling among us, dying on the cross for our sins then rising from the dead has never changed.  That means His purposes and goals from the creation of the world have never changed.  His love for His people has never changed.  We change rather quickly, but He has never changed.  His unchangeableness is why the “sons of Jacob are not consumed.”  He calls them “Jacob” when they act like the rebellious Jacob, and calls them “Israel” when they act like His people.  In verse seven God charges these “sons of Jacob” with going away from His ordinances.  Yet, because He never changes, and they are His chosen people, they aren’t consumed. 

            For the same reasons the Church today is not consumed for their sins.  The church has changed.  Jesus hasn’t changed.  Modern churches have done a lot more than just going away from His ordinances.  The church ordains women and homosexuals and tolerates about every sinful practice imaginable. Many Christians aren’t even genuinely saved.  Praise God that our churches are a lot better than that.  And, praise God that He never changes or surely in His divine righteous anger He would simply cancel the Rapture and consume us all in the Judgments of the Great Tribulation.

Tom Johnson